Add Background Image To Folder in Windows XP

When you open the drive or folder, you see the usual white background in your window explorer. Even though you change your theme, your window explorer background remains the same. Using the below trick, you can now add or change the background of any folders or Drives.

This trick will help you to add an image as background to the folders or drive’s background, replacing your old white background.

Suppose we have two drives, one for movies and the other for songs. We can personalize the two drives by setting some background images according to the drive data.

So when you open movie drive, You will see the movie’s background images, and when you open songs drive, You will see album images as the background image. 

As shown in the below image, I have changed the background of My Document to some wallpaper.

 

Follow the below steps to Set or Add Image To the Background of Windows Explorer

Step 1: Go to Start –> All Program –> Accessories –> Open Notepad.

Step 2: Paste the below code into a notepad.

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

IconArea_Image=images\1.JPG

IconArea_Text=0*000080FFf

Note: Copy the code as shown above. The three-line of codes should be on a separate line.

Step 3: Now, Save it as “Desktop.ini” without quotes. Save this file where you need the image background. The above example shows that I have saved it in My document.

Step 4: Now, you need an image for the background. Create a folder named Images and copy images in that folder. Now give the directory of the image location in the second line of coding. 

Suppose your image name is “1.jpg”, which is inside the images folder. Then, the directory for this will be Images\1.jpg. I have named images with a series of numbers, which makes it easier to change background images later in the code.

Now, we have two files. The first file is the code saved as Desktop.ini, and the other one is a folder named Images, which contains the images used for the background.

Once you make the required changes in the code, save the file, and refresh the folder, you will see the wallpaper as the background for the folder. 

If you don’t see wallpaper set as background, then make sure you specify the correct directories in the second line of the code. I.e., IconArea_Image=IMAGES\2.Jpg .

The third line of code specifies icon text color. If the background is black, Then change the text color to white.

You can use this trick on any folder or drive, Even Portable HDD drives, Flash drives, etc. Just copy the image folder and desktop.ini, where you need the image background.

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